Sharada Vidya Mandir, established in 1965 is the primary school of Vidya Mahamandal.It had humble number of merely 23 students enrolled in the first year. With each respective year, upper classes (up until the 4th standard) and then divisions were added. With a small begining of 23 students, the school now has an enrolment of as many as 775 students.


Teaching staff consists of enthusiastic and well trained professionals.Teachers not only concentrate on completing the sylllabus or the textbooks, but are very much committed to teaching children good values and making them good citizens.Many teachers volunteer to teach children Ramraksha, eeta Adhyaya and so on. Students are also encouraged to paricipate in extracurricular activites and competitions. All festivals are celebrated with great fanfare in the school.

Various schemes such as 'Opening with joy-week, inter class/divisions competitions, students quality development schemes, story telling, drawing competitions, enlightenment programme for parents, Sarva-Shiksha Abhiyan are conducted. Names of our students always appear in Merit Lists for Scholarship every year.

1972 has been an important year in the history of our school. Founder of 'Daily Sakal,' Late Shri Nanasahib Parulekar paid visit to our institution. Our school was renamed as 'Laxmanrao Apte
Prashala.', on this occassion. Late Shri Nanasahib praised our work in this field and expressed hope that the
our institution shall remain committed to society's upliftment. We have responded his call by conducting
various schemes such as ' Tree Plantation, cleanliness drives, Chakachak gangs, providing food and shelter to Warkaris and such other extra carricular activities.

Various Awards / Recognitions to Sharada Vidya Mandir :

Vijiyan Pradarshan (Science Exhibition): Three prizes on the taluka level

Janaganana (Census) of 1990 : Silver Medal

Reciepient of 2002 Pune Muncipal Corporation's "Adarsha Shikshak Yashwantrao Puraskar "

So far 16 of our students have been awarded scholarships of 'National Talent Search', while 22 students of
4 std have bagged scholarship awards. 6 students have received honour of internation Olimpiad scholarship. Many past students have become famous in the fields of Art and Culture. 5 students are winners of 'Sa re ga ma' a prestigeous award in Music. Another past student 'Yoges Dodke' is the winner of 'Hind Kesari', a national title.